Injector for lanterns



UNIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

CHARLES L. BETTS, OE BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR, BY MEsNE ASSIGNMENTS, To THE STEAM GAUGE AND LANTEEN COMPANY, OE SYEAOUSE, NEw YORK.

INJECTOR FDR LANTERNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,661, dated December 1'7, 1889. Application nea July 17, 1889. sen-n No. 317.753. (No model.)

T all whom, it may concern: clude a greater number of sections and some Be it known that I, CHARLES L. BETTS, of a less number. These sections are usually Brooklyn, countyof Kings, and State of New stamped up of sheet metal in lsuitable dies, York, have invented certain new and useful and as to size .and shape they are generally 55 5 Improvements in Injectors for Lanterns and as accurate as may be desired. In uniting Lamps, of which the following is a full, clear, the sections to form the injector, however,

and exact description, reference being had to much difficulty has been experienced in propthe accompanying drawings, and to the leterly spacing and accurately aligningthem, ters of reference marked thereon. so as to insure perfect working under all cir- 6o `Io My invention relates to that Well-known cumstances, to say nothing of the time coni class of air-injectors which are applied upon sumed and evpense and waste incurred in lanterns and lamps for the purpose of gathertheir manufacture. It has been the practice ing and injecting air-currents to maintain to slide t-he sections upon a soapstone rod, to combustion and prevent reversal of the curgage the .spacing by the eye, and then to dip 65 rents passing to the flame. 'These injectors in molten tin or solder, all of which required are applied with their axes horizontal, verskillful handling, consumed time and labor, tical, or inclined according to the style and and resulted in frequent inaccuracies, to the position of the lamp or lantern, and they are detriment and sometimes ruin of 'the article made up ofseveral parts or Sections, to the so finished. To insure absolute accuracy of 7o 2o easy, rapid, accurate, and substantial union spacing and alignment and facilitate the asof which my invention is directed. sembling of the sections, I provide the parts,

It has not been deemed necessary to show except D or the last in the series, with legs herein any lamp or lantern or more than one or projecting pieces, as c a, b b, and c c, prefform of air-injector, inasmuch as my improveerably formed .with the sections and of proper 7 5 ments are applicable to all the forms of inlength. The legs are bent out slightly as they jectors of the general class referred to, and leave 'the wall of the section, thus forming the injectors are in turn to be mounted upon slight ledges or angles, as at d d, upon which any pattern of illuminating apparatus inthe legs of the preceding section may abut,

tended for their use. andthe ends of the legs at the proper points 8o 3o Examples of the application of air-injectors are bent inwardly to form shoulders, as e e. l

to lamps and lanterns will be seen in United This formation of the shoulders is accom- States patents to J. I-I. Irwin, No. 211,405, of plished by use of a suitable die or tool, by

January 14, 187 9, and No. 212,470, of Februwhich all are accurately located, as required. ary 1S, 1879. To assemble the parts thus formed, the legs 85 Accordingly I have shown at Figure 1 of of one section are sprung to place upon the the drawings an elevation of an air-injector ledges d of the next succeeding section, the

ready for application and use, the parts being two parts being thus held in accurate alignproperly joined. Fig. 2 represents the va; ment and at therequired exact distancefrom rions parts or sections of Fig. l in sectional each other. Another section is joined in the 9o 40 elevation, the parts being separated from each same way, and so on to the last, all being held other, but ready to be joined according to my in proper position and requiring no labor or invention; and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation adjustment other than what is necessary to of the completed injector corresponding with snap the parts together. The injector is then Fig. 1, though having its axis vertical instead complete, except the dipping, which is accom- 95 of horizontal. plished by picking up the article upon any H In all the figures like letters of reference, wire or suitable tool and plunging itin molten wherever they occur, indicate corresponding tin or solder, by which the joints are all firmly parts. secured. The manner of uniting and holding The injector chosen for illustration is made the parts before dipping insures completev roo up of four parts or sections. (Represented in soldering of all thejoints in the bath of metal order at A B C D.) Some injectors may inand obviates all danger of displacing or disof several sections having legs integral therewith, provided each with a shoulder at its lower end, the legs of one section engaging with and bearing upon a ledge on the next succeeding section, the joints being finally secured by tin ning or soldering, substantially as and for the purposes explained.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presenee of two Witnesses.

CHAS. L. BETTS.

WVitnesses:

J. A. ALLEN, N. J. CoNsIDINE.

' It is hereby certied that Letters Patent No. 417,661, granted December 17, 1889 upon the application oi' Charles L. Betts, of Brooklyn, New York, for an improvemem in Injectors for Lanterns,7 Was erroneously issued to The Steam Gauge and Lantern Company, of Syracuse, N. Y., as assignee of the entire interest in the patent; thai said Letters Patent should have been issued to The R. E. Diete Company, and the sate Steam Gauge and Lantern Pompany jointly, said R. E. Dietz Company being,` owner oi one-half interest in said invention as shown by assignments of record in this oiiceg and that said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the sain( may coliform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofce.

Signed, eountersigned, and sealed this 24th day of December, A. D. 1889.

[SEAL] GYRUS BUSSEY,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Countersigned C. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents. 

